Declutter: Thrown out all old catalogues and toilet seat

Thrown out all old catalogues and toilet seat ✓

On dreamwidth you should be able to see my new "declutter" icon (also used for general "Success!"). I was originally going to use "Clean ALL of the things!", but I felt too many other people probably would have done that.

I haven't noticed the irony of spending ten minutes finding the perfect icon in order to blog about decluttering instead of doing more of it, so if you notice, please point it out to me in a comment!

Declutter: Arranged end of tenancy cleaning

Arranged end of tenancy cleaning ✓

It was a little stressful planning for this, but it's arranged, they're happy to just clean everything, they gave me a breakdown, and say superficially cleaning the mold is a comparatively small extra.

It feels incredibly good that the cleaning problems with my flat are (hopefully) gone. It's amazing what you can order from the internet, and thanks to Uri David for getting them in before!

Declutter: Thrown out out-of-date cans

Thrown out out-of-date cans and jars ✓

This is mostly stuff with meat in, or other stuff I was never realistically going to really want. I feel guilty for having let it get out of date, and for throwing it out when I don't know for certain it's inedible, but that's in the past, it's gone now, and it's no more wasteful than lots of other things that are less obvious. So yay for getting it done.

Declutter: Putting to rest the dead bike

Over the years, I've had to replace several bikes from theft or accident. Each time, anything left over I've thrown into the shed. By now, the shed contains a Frankenstienian monstrosity where:

* The frame comes from a bike which came off worst in a 50mph collision with the tarmac (fortunately, no vertebrates were harmed in this incident!)
* The back wheel is a hub-gear wheel scavenged off another bike which died in some way (I no longer remember how), but is no longer connected to anything
* The chain is broken
* The front wheel looks fine, but I'm not sure if it is the slightly-bent one or not.
* The saddle was cannibalised when the saddle on my new bike broke. In its place there remains a broken replacement which (probably) doesn't fit on the bike.
* The mud-guard supports and various other accoutrements were also cannibalised
* I've not tried the brakes

Obviously, this chimera is unridable. It's also in pieces. Most of it is going to the recycling centre in the morning (Yay, declutter!) I feel quite morbid, some of the bits having served me well over the years only to be rejected now. But that's as honorable an end as a broken bike can hope for :) Rest in peace, chimera.

My question is, is there anything worth salvaging? I don't really care about the money, but if anything is useful I'd rather it wasn't wasted. The forks are buckled, and I seem to recall replacing them wasn't practical so the frame is unusable, does that sound right? The wheels might be usable as front wheels, but I'm not sure -- is there any point keeping them in case? Or anyone might want them? Is there any use for the brake mountings, gear mountings, etc?